Bug 2334428 (CVE-2024-56544) - CVE-2024-56544 kernel: udmabuf: change folios array from kmalloc to kvmalloc
Summary: CVE-2024-56544 kernel: udmabuf: change folios array from kmalloc to kvmalloc
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-56544
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2024-12-27 15:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-12-28 09:33 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 15:01:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

udmabuf: change folios array from kmalloc to kvmalloc

When PAGE_SIZE 4096, MAX_PAGE_ORDER 10, 64bit machine,
page_alloc only support 4MB.
If above this, trigger this warn and return NULL.

udmabuf can change size limit, if change it to 3072(3GB), and then alloc
3GB udmabuf, will fail create.

[ 4080.876581] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 4080.876843] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2015 at mm/page_alloc.c:4556 __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350
[ 4080.878839] RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350
[ 4080.879470] Call Trace:
[ 4080.879473]  <TASK>
[ 4080.879473]  ? __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350
[ 4080.879475]  ? __warn.cold+0x8e/0xe8
[ 4080.880647]  ? __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350
[ 4080.880909]  ? report_bug+0xff/0x140
[ 4080.881175]  ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80
[ 4080.881556]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
[ 4080.881559]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
[ 4080.882077]  ? udmabuf_create+0x131/0x400

Because MAX_PAGE_ORDER, kmalloc can max alloc 4096 * (1 << 10), 4MB
memory, each array entry is pointer(8byte), so can save 524288 pages(2GB).

Further more, costly order(order 3) may not be guaranteed that it can be
applied for, due to fragmentation.

This patch change udmabuf array use kvmalloc_array, this can fallback
alloc into vmalloc, which can guarantee allocation for any size and does
not affect the performance of kmalloc allocations.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-28 09:29:33 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122728-CVE-2024-56544-42cf@gregkh/T


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